Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-15
TARIFF EMISSIONS.

THE WOOL TARIF EVASIONS.
Texas Live stock Journal
In recent issue we called the attention
sheepmen to the protest of the Phil
lephia Wool Merchants association
gainst the entry of so-called ring waste
waste, at Toe a pound duty, when it
hould be classed as secured wool and
nv SOC pound. We find that the waste
hen honestly made is IA very small per-
bntage of the wool used in making wors-
I'D. but that by slight change in the
Eachinery the whole production of some
ills is converted into waste at trifling
kpense and sent to this country, evad-
9 the duty. There is another point
lat the Philadelphia Wool association
ave protested against and have succeed
in forcing into the courts for settle
ent. and that is, the importation of
DOL tops as secured wool at 3Oc pound
utv. instead of manufactured article
aying a much larger duty. Tops are
bid in England and in this country as Il
Manufacture, but the treasury nclines to
leir being secured wool in a raw state.
ops are state of preparation of worst
warn and no more raw material than
lrn would be or even goods. Goods
build still be advanced into clothing as
ell as tops into yarn. Another weak
)int of the tariff is the third-class or
rpet wool. Over l00,00O,0O0 pounds
e imported in one year, 60 per cent. of
hch is used for clothing purposes. max
= more goods than the clip of Texas
I'd California combined. We have now
our Office a sample of East India
CURED wool, imported at &c pound
lty and cost under 2Sc Il pound. which
equal in quality to some of our light
nditioned low medium woods and which
II sheepmen would have to sell at Zoe a
bund to be on the same basis.
There is a movement among the wool
overs in the North and West on the
riff question; and while they feel they
not properly protected, they do moi
k for an increase of duty, but that the
esent tariff shall be so equalized thai
intentions cannot be violated. We
ention few points: First, clothing
Dols pay one rate for unwashed wool
|uble for washed and treble for secured
therefore, not a single pound of washed
bthing is imported to this country, a.
calling it combng they pay only hal
duty of clothing. The creates
rong. however, is in .carpet wool, as 6'
r cent. of the importations are used fo
bthing instead of carpets, and the i'm
rters, not satisfied with this, swindl'
r growers by securing wool with aka
IS and hot water, leaving about to II
n cent. natural mpurity in and payin!
ly the same duty that they would pa,
imported in the unwashed state, tina
) cents a pound, or equal to 2-3 cen
pound on grease wool, very trifini
OBJECTION to our growers-in fact none
the wool can be brought into thi
untry for half the cost of freight frol
Xas to Philadelphia or Boston. I'll
estern growers will ask next session q
ngresS that all washed woods shall pa
uble the duty of unwashed. and al
buried woods treble, also that woo
lshed in any other way than on tn
reps back shall be called secured, an
ut any wool containing less than II pc
It, natural impurity shall be classed a
bured. They ask that waste valued a
er one-third of the value of the wool
made from shall pay 30 cents poun
ty This for two reasons; one to pre-
ut the evasion of duty as at present
other, if it is really waste they wan
excluded from the country, as it shout
more be put in goods than sand in 81
or alumni in -four.
We are informed that with these chang
Texas wool would readily sell in HON
rkets at Is to Bic for l2-month clips
to 2Sc for G-months, which would yer
ch relieve this depressed industry.
uld make but little difference in til
t of suit of clothes, as 6 to 10 pound
wool makes a suit, increasing the COS
to 75c on "A suit.